About the Authors

Zhen Song

Affiliations The UCLA Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine (Cardiology), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Alain Karma

Affiliation Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James N. Weiss

Affiliations The UCLA Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine (Cardiology), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Zhilin Qu

zqu@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliations The UCLA Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine (Cardiology), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZS AK ZQ. Performed the experiments: ZS ZQ. Analyzed the data: ZS AK JW ZQ. Wrote the paper: ZS AK JW ZQ.